by Haruna » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:18 pm
Because it costs money, a lot of money (hundreds upon thousands of euros), to license vehicles. Not everyone sees it as free advertising. Think of Porsche or Ferrari, who suck the ****s of Microsoft and EA Games to keep other development teams and publishers from touching their precious brand without paying out the *** in ridiculous licensing fees.
Some development teams are willing to take the risk of copyright infringement when they used real names, look at early versions of TORCS (1.2.3 or 1.2.4) as an example.
Do you honestly think an open-source hobby project just has magically, some millions of euros to throw around?
And personally, I'm here to RACE. I don't give a **** if the rear-engine, rear-wheel drive sports coupe is a Porsche or a "Boxer" or an "Einzbern", if it's there for me to drive I will race it.